The Triangle Project

The Triangle Project provides early permanence placements, where children can be placed with approved adopters who have also been approved as foster carers.

In the standard care system, vulnerable children are often faced with uncertainty and instability. The final decision about their future care must proceed through the courts, and if adoption is recommended for that child, they face a further wait whilst suitable adoptive parents are found.

During this time, a child may be cared for in one or more temporary fostering placements. Children may form attachments with their foster carers, and when these are severed, children who have already had a very difficult start in life, will suffer additional disruption and upset.

Early permanence offers children the chance to be cared for in a stable, permanent home as quickly as possible, and reduces the likelihood of additional upheaval for a child who may have already suffered significant trauma.

In early permanence placements, children are ‘fostered’ by the people who are likely to become their adopters at an early stage, avoiding the possibility of multiple temporary placements. This means the bonding process can begin much earlier than it would do with a standard adoptive placement, giving the child the reassurance of a loving, secure family life at the earliest opportunity.

It also means a child will endure fewer moves and broken attachments, avoiding some of the stress and damage which can be caused by removing a child from foster carers they have bonded with.

Find out more here: https://www. adoption-focus.org. uk /a-child-centred-solution